UKNM: re: Amazon, flames etc

[Cait Hurley]

Apologies for starting a row then ducking out - all routes in and out of

e-mail have currently died so I have no idea who's responded to what but I

hear everyone shouted at me or something.


My point, badly and narkily expressed as usual, was that I have often been

in the position before where, once empowered into the creative process, the

coders on a project have been, in fact,  the most creative people on the

team, because their strong knowledge of what the software can do has pushed

the envelope rather than sealed it with the ill concieved ideas that people

who haven't been trained or worked long enough in the medium imagined were

ewhat they should have been doing.


There is one blindingly obvious point to make here:

-I'm not talking about designers or producers or even marketeers who,

regardless of background *have a clue* and who are *good*. Luckily, this is

somewhat more widespread than it used to be, and *obviously* there are some

incredibly good people out there, I mean, I'm not that stupid for God's

sake! I would have thought that people would understand that at least.

Anyway... 


My point was, remembering several coders over the years who I've known to

be incredibly creative people (often way more capable than the people they

were working with or for) getting lumbered with other peoples' bad ideas

then having to make the best of it. The Usability point was made to me by

someone I had alot of time for who was busy pulling his hair out because

the techies in the company were percieved by the creative team as being

implimentors rather than creators.


So ultimately the point is to raise the status of techies within the

"traditional" 'net workplace such that the process of the creation of the

site/information retrieval system is seen as a holistic one, not one where

the "creative" department get together without consulting the apparently

*non* creative department.


At least (apparently) there was some real discussion, but for badly

expressing my point, I apologise.

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